Incandescent-electric-light support.



No. 680,9l3. I Pgtontod Aug. 20, IN". H. BILPATRIO.

INOMIDESOEIT ELECTRIC LIGHT SUPPORT.

(Application Mod Doc. 87, 1000.]

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WITNESSES 2 mvgn/rw? 78m 0r UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY GILPATRIC, OF SPRINGFIELD, VERMONT.

INCANDESCENT-ELECTRlC-LIG HT SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent NO. 680,913, dated August20, 1901.

Application filed December 27, 1900. Serial No- 41,208. (No model.)

T 60 whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY GILPATRIC, a citizen of the UnitedStates,residing at Springfield, in the county of Windsor and State ofVermont, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inIncandescent-Electric- Light Supports,of which the following is afulland complete specification, such as will enable those skilled in the artto which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to suspending devices for electric lights; andthe object thereof is to provide an improved device of this class bymeans of which incandescent electric lights may be suspended from aceiling in the manner of a chandelier and by means of which the positionof the lights may be changed as desired; and with these and otherobjects in view the invention consists in a device of the classspecified constructed as hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, ofwhich the accompanying drawings form a part, in which the separate partsof my improvement are designated by the same reference characters ineach of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of a deviceembodying my improvement, and Fig. 2 a perspective view of a detail ofthe construction.

In the practice of my invention I connect with and suspend from aceiling or other support 5 a tube 6, through which electric wires orconductors 7 are passed, and this tube 6 is reduced at its lower end,and revolubly mounted thereon is a cross-head or support 8, which istubular in form, and in the opposite ends of which are mountedtelescopic tubes 9, in the ends of which are mounted telescopic rods 10.The tubes 9 are adapted to slide into the tubular ends of the cross-heador support 8 and to be held at any desired point therein, and the rods10 are likewise adapted to be inserted into the tubes 9 and to beadjusted therein in the usual or in any desired manner. I also providesuspending devices, two of which are shown in the drawings and each ofwhich comprises a ring 11, which is adapted to be slid onto the rods 10or the tubes 9, as may be desired, and the ring 11 is provided with ahanger 12, consisting in an angular plate, in one side of which is aninwardly and downwardly directed notch or recess 13 and the top portionof which is preferably provided with an opening 14 and is connected withthe ring 11 by any suitable suspending device 15.

The hangers 12 may be adjusted to any desired point on the rods 10 or onthe tubes 9, and the conductors, which are provided with incandescentlights 16, are suspended from the hangers 12 by being passed into thenotch or recess 13, and the cross-head or support 8, being revolublymounted on the tube 6, it will be apparent that the lights may besuspended over any part of a room, and by adjusting the rods 10 andtubes 9 the said lights may be carried into the various portions of aroom or compartment, as will be readily understood, and it will also beapparent that the cross-head or support 8 may be provided with anydesired number of tubular arms, into which the tubes 9 and rods 10 maybe inserted, and any desired number of the conductors 7 may be passedthrough the tube 6.

It will thus be seen that I provide a simple and efiective device of theclass specified and one by means of which any portion of aroom orcompartment may be fully illuminated, and changes in and modificationsof the construction described may be made without departing from thespirit of my invention or sacrificing its advantages.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. An electric-light apparatus, comprising a tube adapted to besuspended from the ceiling and through which the electric-light wiresare passed, a cross-head mounted on the lower end of said tube andadapted to turn thereon and provided with separate tubular arms,telescopic supports mounted in said arms and adjustable therein, andhangers suspended from said supports and adapted to be adj usted thereonand on said arms, said hangers being provided with devices forsuspending the electric-light wires therefrom, substantially as shownand described.

2. An apparatus of the class described, provided with telescopic arms orsupports and hangers suspended therefrom, said hangers consisting ofrings through which said arms ence of thesubscribing witnesses,this 22dor supports are passed, and angular plates day of December, 1900.suspended from said rings and provided with notches or recesses in thesides thereof, sub- HARRY GILPATRIO 5 stantially as shown and described.Witnesses:

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as CARRIE E. GILPATRIC,

my invention I have signed my name, in pres- Mrs. HARRY GILPATRIC. I

